Down to 44. Seems like a rough outcome, but just keep on winning and we’ll be fine.
Vandy sitting at #85 headed into their game tonight against UK.
Vandy sitting at #85 headed into their game tonight against UK.
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Net dropped 5 spots
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NET needs way more transparency.
I don’t understand how the NET works. Liberty is ranked 40th in the NET and they have zero quad one wins and three quad three losses. We have four quad one wins and just one quad three loss and we’re 44th. I don’t get it.
ETA: And Arkansas is 14th! They might finish with a worse overall record and conference record than us and are 30 spots in front.
ETA: And Arkansas is 14th! They might finish with a worse overall record and conference record than us and are 30 spots in front.
I know NET isn't supposed to be the be all end all, but one win dropping somebody 5 spots when there are 29 other games that have already been played seems screwed up. I understand early in the season it fluctuating a ton b/c there aren't many games, and I understand beating a highly ranked team moving somebody up or losing to a poorly ranked team moving the needle a lot. But a win in the last week of the season should never hurt this much. I don't know if it'd be too complicated to calculate and require a thousand iterations just to generate the net, but it'd be nice if they had some adjustment where the formula ignores up to two or three wins that hurt a teams NET, or at least conference wins that hurt a teams net.
Current NET 39-44 with movements from previous rank:
(38 to 39) Memphis beat Wichita State (114) by 5 on Thursday and Cincinnati (79) by 3 on Sunday
(40 to 40) Liberty beat Queens University (206) by 20 on Friday and Bellarmine (260) by 20 on Tuesday
(41 to 41) Northwestern lost to Illinois (36) by 4 on Thursday and Maryland (20) by 16 on Sunday
(42 to 42) NC State lost to Clemson (62) by 25 on Saturday and Duke (22) by 4 on Tuesday
(44 to 43) Oral Roberts beat South Dakota (296) by 12 on Thursday and South Dakota St (148) by 4 on Saturday
(39 to 44) Mississippi State beat Texas A&M (24) by 7 on Saturday and South Carolina (234) by 6 on Tuesday
I'm sure our drop is a lot more "beat the rock that beat the scissors that beat the paper that beat the rock" magic math than anything that any of these teams did directly.
Also of note is that Iowa made the biggest jump (43 to 33). They beat Michigan State (31) by 6 in OT on Saturday and Indiana (28) by 22 on Tuesday. Indiana dropped ten places (18 to 28) after the loss.
ETA: Current NET rankings of all teams involved and movement from previous rank.
(38 to 39) Memphis beat Wichita State (114) by 5 on Thursday and Cincinnati (79) by 3 on Sunday
(40 to 40) Liberty beat Queens University (206) by 20 on Friday and Bellarmine (260) by 20 on Tuesday
(41 to 41) Northwestern lost to Illinois (36) by 4 on Thursday and Maryland (20) by 16 on Sunday
(42 to 42) NC State lost to Clemson (62) by 25 on Saturday and Duke (22) by 4 on Tuesday
(44 to 43) Oral Roberts beat South Dakota (296) by 12 on Thursday and South Dakota St (148) by 4 on Saturday
(39 to 44) Mississippi State beat Texas A&M (24) by 7 on Saturday and South Carolina (234) by 6 on Tuesday
I'm sure our drop is a lot more "beat the rock that beat the scissors that beat the paper that beat the rock" magic math than anything that any of these teams did directly.
Also of note is that Iowa made the biggest jump (43 to 33). They beat Michigan State (31) by 6 in OT on Saturday and Indiana (28) by 22 on Tuesday. Indiana dropped ten places (18 to 28) after the loss.
ETA: Current NET rankings of all teams involved and movement from previous rank.
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Vandy makes me nervous. I don't like playing in that place and their center might be trouble.
Not to mention they somehow always find a 3 point RAT
Not to mention they somehow always find a 3 point RAT
Memphis and State are going to play their way into the NIT if they don't stop winning games.